The Standard Deviation for the Checking Account Balances Is Assumed

question 136

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The standard deviation for the checking account balances is assumed known to be $357.50. Recently, a bank manager was interested in estimating the mean balance. To do this, she selected a random sample of 81 accounts and found a mean balance of $1,347.20. At a 95 percent confidence level, the lower limit for the confidence interval is $646.50.

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